Andrew Beck（英国考文垂大学-Coventry University艺术与设计学院院长）

Andrew Beck

　　Andrew Beck在作为教育家、顾问、作家以及课程设计上拥有超过30年的丰富经验，他在英国一直致力于中等教育、大学教育、进修教育、成人教育以及高等教育的研究，并担任考文垂艺术与设计学院应用传播学以及国际发展的首席讲师。

　　Andrew Beck发表了许多关于沟通、会议论文、汇编文摘等方面的文章，最近出版成书的出版物有：《文化传播研究》（劳特里奇出版社，2003年）；传播学研究：《根本资源》（劳特里奇出版社，2004年），传播学集（爱丁堡大学出版社，2005年），《沟通技巧和社会工作》（开放大学出版社，2005年）等，泰晤士报教育副刊说，他的畅销书集传播学研究将是将来判断教科书的标准。

　　Andrew Beck has over thirty years experience as educationalist, consultant, author, examiner, and curriculum designer. He has worked in secondary, tertiary, further, adult, and higher education in the United Kingdom. He works Principal Lecturer in Applied Communication, as well as leading on international development for Coventry School of Art and Design.

　　His teaching is centred on communication practice for second and third year undergraduate and postgraduate students. He supervises a large number of students’ dissertation work, specialising in investigations into advertising and promotional culture, and the application of classic and postmodern theory to working organisations. His own research interests include communication education, cultural work, the persuasive industries, and the impact of the environment on consciousness.

　　He has twenty years experience of examination work, having served as Chief Examiner for both professional examining bodies such as the Association of Accounting Technicians, and academic examining bodies such as the Associated Examining Board. As part of the UK government’s Curriculum 2000 initiative he wrote the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance’s (AQA) ‘A’ Level Communication Studies specification, first sat by students in 2001. In recent years he has given research papers at Sidney Sussex College University of Cambridge, the Royal Institute of British Architects, Ulster University, and Athens Institute of Education and Research, as well as addressing educators on assessment issues in UK further and higher education.

　　He has published widely on communication. In addition to conference papers, and chapters in edited collections, recent book-length publications include Recent publications include Cultural Work (Routledge 2003), Communication Studies: The Essential Resource (Routledge 2004), Get Set For Communication Studies (Edinburgh University Press 2005), and Communication Skills and Social Work (Open University Press 2008). The ‘Times Educational Supplement’ said his bestselling book Communication Studies: The Essential Introduction (Routledge 2002) ‘sets the standards by which future textbooks will be judged’.

　　He has worked in a consultancy role advising public and private sector organisations on effective internal and external communications. He has reviewed pop and jazz concerts for BBC CW, has made digital films such as Walking Hawksmoor (1999), and has exhibited his photography in installations such as Bricks and Water (1999); his photography also appears in publications including Flamenco Legend: In Search of Camaron de la Isla (2007). In a survey of UK universities’ Media and Communication departments in 2004 the Independent newspaper reported: ‘At Coventry Martyn Lee, Karen Ross and Andrew Beck are the hotshots’ (The Independent, 13 August 2004).